If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.

LOL.

And the massive corruption. And the Russians.

That’s very strange. Is this Thameslink? I bought e-tickets covering Thameslink on Trainline. I would take this up with them.

I always buy mine on Trainline - does that not work on your line?

Front page of The Mirror, UK, April.6th: 'Unhinged. President Hits New Low'.

At least one of our newspapers didn't whitewash Trump's vile and intemperate outburst.

#Trump
#DonaldTrump
#Iran
#StraitofHormuz

That famous treaty they made entirely with themselves. That one.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Tuesday

Ok, I’ll give the English edition a plug then.

Thanks for seeing us at the FPA last week, great briefing! Do you know if/when there’ll be a German edition, and what its title will be? I can’t find anything online.

Have you seen BILD?

Not fighting a war with Iran would presumably have a similar effect.

Der heimliche, unheimliche Einfluss des Tony Blair Tony Blair ruinierte sein Image mit dem Irakkrieg. Das möchte er ändern. Jüngste zwielichtige Verbindungen legen nahe: Für den Ex-Premier heiligt der Zweck offenbar alle Mittel.

www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?

“The markets have largely swallowed the fundamental underlying Trump idiocy, which is that he is the only pertinent person in world affairs. Plainly he believes this, but he is wrong. And he is discovering how wrong he is as we speak.”
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK A new analysis finds that Brexit raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by about 200,000, but resulted in a more dramatic shift in the countries of origin.

The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social

Brexit

a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce)
b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%)

www.cer.eu/insights/imp...

I love Jeremy Bowen in "I'm too old for this shit" mode #wato

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.

It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

Watch this twice. Once for Hannah's speech and a second time for Matt Goodwin's face throughout it...

He also somehow manages to look like an evil version of Mr Bean, as a German friend just remarked (apologies to Mr Bean)

a year is a long time in politics

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring [FREE TO READ] Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

this FT reporting team exposed a secret Russian smuggling team by using this one weird trick -- they all shared the same email address??? as.ft.com/r/aa78dec9-c...

It’s a mark of the poverty of thought of these characters that they have to take a brilliant writer’s imagination and use her novel as an instruction manual. And only after it became a TV series because they don’t read. They can’t even invent their own fascist dictatorship.

All the men (and a few women, let’s not forget those) did, centrists and right-wing populist alike. It’s just that there are no consequences for the latter. It’s quite clear that Epstein had no preference re left/right/centre. He just hated women and wanted to burn it all down.

Am Ende lachen die Populisten Die mühsame Aufarbeitung der Epstein-Akten hat in Europa bislang härtere Konsequenzen als in den USA. Die Profiteure sind nicht die Opfer.

In Europe, the publication of the Epstein files above all helps right-wing populists. Which was probably the plan. www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Name them
shame them

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